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Peter Brooks Reading for the Plot (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Reading for the Plot
- Publication Name
- Reading for the Plot : Design and Intention in Narrative
- Title
- Reading for the Plot
- EAN
- 9780674748927
- ISBN
- 9780674748927
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 1992
- Release Date
- 01/03/1992
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Design and Intention in Narrative
- ISBN-10
- 0674748921
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Language & Reference
- Topic
- Literary Criticism
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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Product Information
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674748921
ISBN-13
9780674748927
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1041124
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Reading for the Plot : Design and Intention in Narrative
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn3378.B76 1992
Reviews
A brilliant study... The author goes beyond what he considers the too static approach of the structuralist literary critics to probe the dynamics of narrative and show how they answer our psychic needs... Reading for the Plot is a stimulating, ground-breaking book that invites us to consider anew how plotting both reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose meaning on life., A brilliant study...The author goes beyond what he considers the too static approach of the structuralist literary critics to probe the dynamics of narrative and show how they answer our psychic needs...Reading for the Plot is a stimulating ground-breaking book that invites us to consider anew how plotting both reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose meaning on life., What is...gratifying about Brooks's approach is his insistence that plot elements must survive even the most radical postmodern consciousness... As he so eloquently confirms, so long as there is self-conscious life on earth, there will be narrative plotting in some form or another. To expect us to give it up would be like asking us to give up breathing., A major book by a major critic. It will appeal both to literary theorists and to readers of the novel, and it is likely to be seen as an important point of reference for many years to come., A brilliant study...The author goes beyond what he considers the too static approach of the structuralist literary critics to probe the dynamics of narrative and show how they answer our psychic needs... Reading for the Plot is a stimulating ground-breaking book that invites us to consider anew how plotting both reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose meaning on life., What is...gratifying about Brooks's approach is his insistence that plot elements must survive even the most radical postmodern consciousness...As he so eloquently confirms, so long as there is self-conscious life on earth, there will be narrative plotting in some form or another. To expect us to give it up would be like asking us to give up breathing., Peter Brooks has delivered a major contribution to narrative theory and critical practice in a book remarkable for its lucidity and theoretical adventurousness.
Table of Content
Preface 1. Reading for the Plot 2. Narrative Desire 3. The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir 4. Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative 5. Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations 6. The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative 7. Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities 8. Narrative Transaction and Transference 9. An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness 10. Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding 11. Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom! In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot Notes
Copyright Date
1984
Topic
General, Rhetoric, Référence
Lccn
91-031007
Dewey Decimal
809.3/923
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
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